Railway tie and rail fastener.



W. F. BAKER.

RAILWAY TIE AND RAIL FASIENER.

APPLICATION HLED AUG.3. 191k Patented Oct.15, 1918..

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W. F. BAKER.

RAILWAY TIE AND BAIL FASTENER'.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.3. 1911.

Patented Oct. 15, 1918.

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WILLIAM F. BAKER, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO BAKER STEEL TIE CORPORATION, OF OKLAHOMA, OKLAHOMA.

RAILWAY TIE AND BAIL FASTENER.

Specification of Iietters Patent. Patented Oct, 15, 1918;

' Application filed August 3, 1917. Serial No. 184,222.

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, WILLIAM F. BAKER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State .of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway Ties and Rail Fasteners, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the annexed drawings. 2

Many of the metal ties now produced comprise a fiat or curved bottom portion having at its edges upstanding side walls in tended to support track rails. 1

A tie of this class is shown in Letters Patent No. 1,158,423, issued to the inventor on November 2, 1915; and in this tie the side walls are flanged outward horizontally at their upper edges to form a wider seat for the rail than would otherwise be formedby said walls.

An object of the present invention is to provide means for preventing the upper portions or edges of the side walls of the tie from spreading apart.

Another ob ect 1s to providesupport for the outwardly-flanged. upper edges of the side walls.

A still further object is to provide means for fastening rails to ties.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will be set forth in the ensuing de scription.

In carrying out the objects stated, the tie and rail-fastening means are reduced to a very limited-numberof elements and those elements are so formed and arranged that the limited number of them perform the several functions required to prevent the side walls from spreading apart; to support the outwardly-flanged vupper edges of the side walls; and to fasten the rails to the tie. The drawings show one of the practical forms in which the invention may be embodied. V v

Figure l is a fragmental plan view of a very simple form of the improved tie.

Fig. 2 is an elevation view of the parts shown in Fig. 1, taken in the direction of the arrow .2. q 4 r Fig.- 3 isa reproduction of Fig. 2,1butw1th one of the parts changed inform and func- 7 V c. I 7:

7 Fig. 4 is an elevation view of the-parts shown in Fig. 2, taken in thedirection of the arrow 4-.

Fig. 5 is a fragmental plan view showing a tie and rail and a simple formof the means for fastening the rail. V

Fig. 6 is an'elevation view of the parts shown in Fig. 5, taken in the'direction of the arrow 6.

Fig. 7 is an elevation View of the parts shown in Fig. 6, taken in the direction of the arrow 7 the figure being partly in section on the line 7-7 of Fig. 6.

Fig. 8 is a fragmental perspective view showing a tie and rail and showing more fully developed means for fastening the rail to the tie.

Fig. 9 is a perspective view showing the tie and showing how to bring certain parts into assemblage therewith.

vFig. 10 is a perspective view of a pair of rail-fastening members.

Like characters of reference designate like parts in all the ,figures.

The trough tie shown in this instance includes a bottom 12 with upstanding side walls 13 at the edges thereof to support rai s.

In order to keep the upper portions or edges of the side walls 13 from spreading outward, the inventor ties said walls together near their upper vedges with a positive material connection which extends from one wall across to the other.

This connection may be a metal bar 14 like shown, the projections 16 on the ends of the bar 14 extend upward and therefore hook onto the outer surface of the walls 13 at the upper edges of the openings-15.

In arranging to hold the bar 14 in place and prevent it from rattling or moving in A bolt 17, having a nut 18, may then be.

passed through the two bars 14, between the walls 13 to keep said bars from turning over 1n their openmgs 15, and the nut 18 'may be screwed up to clamp the bars tightly against the ends of their. openings.

projections not only forming the supports for the flanges 19, but also forming the hooks or means whereby the bars 14 engage the Walls to keep them from spreading.

1 In providing means for fastening a rail 20 to the tie,'there is provided a pair of clamping members which are carried by the tie and arranged to engage some suitable portion of the rail.

' In this instance these clamping members are arranged like the jaws of a' vise and pivoted in the tie in position to hook up [over the edges of the base 21 of the rail Each jaw 22 is formed at its lower or pivotal end into an axis bar 23 which extends across through the tie in the same manner as the bars 14 aforesaid and pivotally into openings 24 in the side walls 13.

The axis bars23 of the jaws 22 are provided on their outer ends with short. projections 25, so that after being placed in the openings 24 and having their aws' brought to the clamping position shown in Figs. 4 to 7 said bars cannot withdraw from "said openings.

Any of the well known means for forcibly drawing clamping jaws together may be employed to force the jaws '22 into clamping engagement with the'base 21 of the rail 20, suo'hffor example, as the bolt 17 which passes through the two jaws just below the rail 20 and is provided with the nut 18.

In screwing the nut 18 up tightly, the

' axis bars 23 of the aws 22 are forced t the ends of their openings 24 adjacent the rail 20 while the upper or hooked portions 26 ai j s are or ed nto the sloping base 21 of the rail and clamp said base down tightly on the tie.

n th o fu ly d eloped form o th n nt n s o n i Fig 8to 1.0, he axis ars 23 of th j s 2 ar so fo med asv to serve t purposes f he bars l4'shown i Figs. 1 we. v

In doing this, he axis bar 23 of. each jaw 22 is pr i d n its e d w h. the upward pr ject ns 16,, as best shown F g- 1. hesepreie tions be ng adapted o hook nt the outside surfaces of the walls of the ti a he upper edg i the p nings. 2 a d al o projec up ard high. enough as. forcibly s 1 p rt. the side flang s. .9 of said a ls '5 with he r pr j ctions. 16., to bepla ed in th p g e at er are elongated hori- 6.5

6 all the-ax s; ar f. the jaws 22,

zontally enough'sothat by turning said bars alls. and iew carried biz vthehalf, said over ninety degrees into the position shown in Fig- 9 they may be sl pped into. p ace.

Th following e 1. A bar adapted to have its ends extended through the, walls of a tie, the bar having at its ends upward projections adapted to support flanges at the upper edges of said walls, and having means for preventing it from turning over in said walls.

2. A bar adapted to have its ends extended through the walls of a tie, the barhaving at itsfends upward projections adapted to form a support for flanges at the upper edges of the walls, said projections also being adapted 'to prevent withdrawal of the ends of said bars from said walls, a holding member engaging the bar to hold its end projections in normal supporting position, and means adapted to be attached to the tie to form an anchor for said holding member.

3. A pair of bars adapted to have their ends extended through the walls of a tie, the bars having at their ends upward projections adapted to support flanges at the upper edges of the walls, and a bolt passing through said bars, said bolt being adapted to hold said bars from turning over in said walls and from rattling.

4. A pair of bars adapted to be extended pivotally through a tie, and a jaw carried by each bar to engage a rail, a bolt passing through the jaws and provided with a nut to drawthemtogether.

5. In combination with a tie having side walls and'fianges at the upper edgesof said walls, a bar extending across the tie with its ends extending through said Walls, the ends of the bar having upward projections adapted to support said flanges.

6. "In combination'with a tie having side walls and flanges on the upper edges of said walls, a bar extending across through the tie with its ends extending through said Walls, the ends of the bar having upward projections adapted to support, said flanges, and means for preventing the. bar from turning over in sai walls. r

7. In combination with a tie having side walls, a pair of" bars extending across through the tie with their ends extending through Sa d; Walls, the ends of the bars having'projections adapted to prevent their withdrawal from said walls," and a bolt passing through the two bars to, hold them from turni g ov r a to damn t em against rattling movement in said walls.

In o ii t n it a t e a ng. sid walls, a bar extending across thljough the tie wit i s end extending hrough d.

jaw being adapted to be forced engagemen wi h a rail.

2-. com ina ion i ha ie having I walls, a bar extending across the 'tie'iwith its ends extending through said wan -and a jaw carried by the bar in position to be clamped to a rail, the ends of the bar having projections adapted to prevent their withdrawal from said walls.

10. In combination with a tie having side walls, the upper edges of the walls being flanged, a bar extending across through the tie with its endsvextending through said walls, the bar having a jaw projecting from it between the walls to engage a rail, and means for forcing said jaw into engagement with the rail, the ends of the bar having upward projections to support the flanges of the walls and to prevent withdrawal of said ends from said walls.

11. In combination with a tie having upstanding side walls, a pair of bars extending across through the tie with their ends extending through said walls, each bar having a jaw extending upward between said walls to engage a rail, and means for forcibly drawing the two jaws together, the outer ends of the bars having projections adapted to prevent their withdrawal from said walls.

12. In combination with a tie having upstanding side walls and a rail resting on said walls, a bar extending across through the tie with its ends extending through said walls, a jaw carried by the bar between the walls and in position to be forced into contact with the rail, means for forcing the jaw into contact with the rail, and means carried by the tie to hold the rail in opposition to the jaw.

13. In combination with a tie having upstanding side walls and a rail resting on said walls, a pair of bars extending through the tie with their ends extending through said walls, each bar having a jaw extending upward between the walls to engage the rail, a bolt passing through the jaws to clamp them to the rail, the ends of the bars having projections adapted to prevent their withdrawal from said walls.

14. In combination with a tie having upstanding side walls and flanges extending horizontally from said walls, a rail resting on the flanges of the walls, a pair of bars extending across through the tie with their ends extending through said walls, each bar having a jaw extending upward between the walls to engage the rail, a bolt passing through the jaws and clamping them to the rail, the ends of the bars having projections adapted to support said flanges of the walls.

15. In combination with a tie having upstanding side walls and flanges extending horizontally from said walls, a rail resting on the flanges of the walls, a pair of bars extending across through the tie with their ends extending through openings in said walls, each bar having a jaw extending upward between the walls to engage the rail, each jaw being formed at its upper end into a hook adapted to hook over the edge of the base of the rail, a bolt passing through the jaws below the rail and clamping them in hooked engagement with the base of the rail, the ends of the bars being provided with upward projections adapted to support the flanges of the side walls and prevent withdrawal of said ends from the openings of the walls, said openings being so shaped that by turning the bars over the projections of the bars may be passed freely in or out of said openings.

Witness my hand this 16 day of July,

WILLIAM F. BAKER.

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